Kubernetes is fast maturing as an open source container orchestrator for automating deployment, scaling, and operating complex containerized applications. Containerizing the OpenStack control plane and running on top of Kubernetes (which acts as an underlay) makes OpenStack easier to scale, upgrade, and manage. Just as Kubernetes and containerization bring benefit to rapid application development and delivery, bringing OpenStack and Kubernetes together can increase the resilience and scale of the OpenStack control plane and enable faster delivery of infrastructure innovation.

Join Mirantis' Nathan Trueblood and Intel's Das Kamhout to learn about how you can benefit from the work the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities are doing to provide a single platform for running bare metal, VMs and container workloads so that companies can rapidly deliver applications and business value to their customers.

Using Supermicro’s innovative Rack Scale Design (Supermicro RSD) solutions using NVMe over fabric to bring the superior performance of NVMe based network storage to your applications. Supermicro RSD solutions will simplify the complexity of scaled NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) deployments, encapsulating them into a service based model for NVMe target, client, and fabric management.

According to ESG, nearly 70% of senior IT Decision Makers believe that their IT environment is more complex than it was two years ago.* In this webinar, learn how to modernize your data protection by deploying NetApp ONTAP storage with Veeam Availability solutions to simplify IT, reduce costs, mitigate risk and increase business agility.

VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center SDDC software to the AWS Cloud, with optimized access to AWS services and robust disaster protection. With the same architecture and operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, IT teams can now quickly derive instant business value from use of the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience. NetApp ONTAP Cloud introduces NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI data management for AWS EBS storage and tier to S3 storage.

Join the webinar to learn why and how you should use ONTAP Cloud to provide block and file storage to VMware Cloud on AWS guest operating systems for dev/test, disaster recovery, production applications, and more. As you look to use your enterprise tools to deliver hybrid cloud solutions, you need to see how VMware and NetApp together can make hybrid cloud a reality for you.

This webinar will highlight:
•How NetApp and Commvault’s innovative data management capabilities allow you to get the most out of your Next Generation Data Center while ensuring your data is protected
•Commvault IntelliSnap integration with NetApp SolidFire and NetApp HCI (Element OS) along with the NetApp product portfolio
•Seamless Application Integration

The audience will be exposed to a SaaS based analytics platform that allows them to define and or defend their Cloud/ Hybrid IT Strategy. Users have to ability to quickly review, substantive venue analysis for workload placement, with the ability to run “what if scenarios” as well for PVC-Hosted Environments and or Public Cloud as alternative Venues. You are guaranteed to learn something about Cloud and Workload placement that you can apply to your business immediately.

This talk presents a more pervasive and simplified deployment architecture by integrating Containerized standalone Cinder services with baremetal Kubernetes. Cinder services offer many storage features that are still missing in Kubernetes. Cinder is supported by many storage vendors, with over 70 storage drivers in its repository. A Containerized standalone Cinder service makes these features and extensive storage products available to Kubernetes clusters, quickly and easily.

Key to this architecture is an external Kubernetes volume provisioner that provisions Cinder volumes transparently and converts Cinder volumes to Kubernetes supported storage types, such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, or Ceph RBD.

We'll show you how the combination of the services above with a true Next Generation Data Center Storage Solution like NetApp SolidFire simplifies and accelerates your ability to leverage persistence in a bare metal Kubernetes cluster while delivering advanced features like multi-tenancy, automation and guaranteed Quality of Service.

In this webinar, we’ll deep dive into how Intel and VMware have worked together to deliver the first HCI offering in the Intel Select Solutions program. Based off of VMware vSAN, the vSphere-native storage that powers scalable and high performance HCI systems, these solutions are available in multiple configurations to meet different business needs. We’ll look at how these new hardware and software technologies come together to help enterprise seamlessly transition to HCI during key infrastructure refresh cycles. In addition, we’ll explain the savings customers see in both operations and capital costs, and then explore specific use cases and performance to validate why HCI powered by vSAN has become the go to solution for many Fortune 500 companies.

Learn how OnCommand Insight (OCI), a leader in Hybrid Cloud infrastructure analytics, provides end to end visibility and data analysis across large scale private, public and multi-cloud data center environments. OnCommand Insight provides detailed business insights helping organizations accurately trend and forecast capacity and performance demand, optimize service level offerings while controlling cost and alert to risks in availability, best practice governance and underutilized assets. Come learn how OCI’s analytics and proactive machine learning technology help to rapidly determine root cause and improve “mean time to innocence” across vendor technology silos and IT teams.

Imagine you went to a restaurant and ordered fish and your server came back with a Patagonian Toothfish, a pile of random spices and vegetables, a knife and a frying pan and told you to cook it yourself. Hhhmmm, you thought. So you asked for help. The response: a badly photocopied sheet of paper with a website URL to learn the ingredients for a “Chilean Sea Bass” and a few recipes to boot. This is how we build infrastructure today.

VMware vSAN based hyperconverged solutions from Lenovo revolutionize how you can deliver your datacenter infrastructure. The set-up is simpler, it costs less and easier to use than traditional IT solution. It allows you to focus on running your business rather than on building your infrastructure. Join this webinar as VMware and Lenovo introduce the new ThinkAgile VX Series. The result of this offering: ability to focus on the true business value of hyperconvergence. You will see how vSAN ReadyNodes and ThinkAgile VX will help re-engineer Enterprise IT to be flexible and responsive, enabling more time delivering business value rather than integrating IT infrastructure.

The new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors created an Intel-driven inflection point for data management. Now’s the time to explore what this new architecture means for your current and future storage environments. NetApp, a data management industry leader, shares how Intel Xeon Scalable processors coupled with a converged systems strategy is proven to help you perform at full capacity, do more with less, and optimize your full stack. Tune in to learn about:
• The opportunity with converged systems based on early Intel Xeon Scalable processor results
• NetApp’s multi-cloud strategy with respect to convergence
• Specific workloads that will benefit from enhanced processor power and a converged infrastructure

Supermicro has introduced its latest new All-Flash NVMe X11 BigTwin™ solution with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and revolutionary Intel® Optane™ Technology. These offerings join an already diverse and robust portfolio of vSAN Ready Nodes from Supermicro that are easy to order, deploy and manage in wide ranging workload situations.

BigTwin vSAN solution is designed for maximum density with 4 dual-processor nodes in a 2U rack space to support many virtual machines, and with up to 3TB of DDR4 memory per node, up to six all-flash NVMe drive bays per node, and a wide selection of Supermicro’s flexible onboard SIOM networking modules.

Join this webinar to learn how you can enhance the efficiency and performance of your datacenter environments with Supermicro vSAN All-Flash NVMe with Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X and understand the “behind the scenes” configuration, optimization, and benchmarking efforts that went in with our partners – Intel and VMware to ensure a seamless deployment with utmost confidence.

Greater visibility and control for individual VMs, along with enhanced storage efficiency and QoS controls, allow customers to streamline management and ensure optimal performance for their virtualized infrastructure. This session will review the NetApp virtualization solutions portfolio before focusing on current ONTAP and NetApp tool capabilities for vSphere.

Building or running a cloud?
Attend this webinar to explore the great impact which an outstanding storage solution can have on your entire public or private cloud. Intel and StorPool have created a production tested solution, which you can use to build faster, safer and more efficient clouds.

The convergence of analytical and transactional workloads, through a unified fast storage and memory infrastructure, is giving way to a new breed of fast data architectures that support real-time analytics and just-in-time data science. To enable this vision, organizations are capitalizing on recent innovations in fast storage that combine volume, velocity, and variety facets of big data all in one data tier. The combination of in-memory data grids and storage-class memory solutions (such as Intel Optane SSD/NVMe) delivers performance that removes the need for competing operational and analytical strategies for accessing data.

In-memory data grids that leverage multi-tiered storage with SCM empower businesses with the capability of unlocking high-value insights from real-time and historical data. In this webinar, we discuss the forces driving this insight-centric trend as well as reference architectures using Apache Spark and GigaSpaces XAP to address particular design challenges for streaming analytics, fast data lakes, and continuous machine learning data pipelines.

DevOps is streamlining the delivery of applications in the Enterprise. Container technology is transforming the packaging of these applications. Together, true agility is achieved. Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Integrated Container platforms are changing cloud services, and Lenovo works closely with both to maximize container execution.

Container technology is maturing as a way to quickly package and deploy application workloads without the need for re-purposing hardware or operating systems. Containers enable a self-sufficient runtime environment that is light weight compared to a full blown operating system or virtual machine. In addition, containers provide a way to securely compartmentalize applications and to run them side-by-side on the same machine for efficient resource utilization. In this session, we will describe how enterprises can take advantage of container technology with an integrated hardware infrastructure solution from Lenovo.

One of the dreams of development is to build a software package once - and deploy it anywhere. With current open source projects, this dream is even closer than ever. Join Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef as she discusses how to create software packages that run (almost) anywhere with Habitat. You'll see how the same application can be run on bare metal, on a virtual machine, or in a container - with everything needed to automate that application already built into the package itself. Also learn how to build and deploy these packages with the intelligence to self-organize into topologies, without needing a central orchestrator. See how the dream of platform-agnostic and self-organizing packages is fulfilled today, and how it will evolve in the future.

Although vSAN provides a means for customers to have block-based storage, many customers still have a requirement for native file services. Join this session to learn about NetApp’s complimentary software solution, which provides file services for a vSAN deployment.

VMware's Software Defined Data Center is about data center transformation. Join Lenovo and VMware for a discussion about hybrid cloud, storage, and other things to consider in your data center transformation. Consider a hyperconverged design based on VMware VSAN, or work with traditional storage. Find the right path for your enterprise, so your team can focus less on keeping the lights on and more on data governance and enterprise business unit needs.

In this webinar, Lenovo and VMware will discuss validated and tested designs working with the most recent VMware software releases and Lenovo’s ThinkSystem servers and infrastructure based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Join us to see how Lenovo and VMware enable you to transform your IT by building a high performing, serviceable, and secure future-designed data center.

Supermicro has released a comprehensive line of new X11 generation server and storage solutions featuring the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family with the strongest support for NVMe storage and 100G/25G Ethernet in the industry.

Supermicro’s new X11 generation solutions are engineered to unleash the full performance and rich feature sets on the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family, supporting more cores and higher TDP envelopes of 205 watts and higher, increased to six memory channels with higher bandwidth, and more PCI-E 3.0 lanes with up to 100G/40G/25G/10G Ethernet, 100G EDR InfiniBand and integrated Intel® Omni-Path Architecture networking fabrics. The elevated compute performance, density, I/O capacity, and efficiency are coupled with industry’s most comprehensive support for NVMe NAND Flash to deliver up to 16 million IOPS for unprecedented application responsiveness and agility. Customers can select the Server, Storage, Blade, Network, or Workstation systems optimized for their applications, as well as the performance, memory, storage, and I/O profiles that are optimally matched to their workloads, at attractive price points.

Register for this webinar to hear about Supermicro’s latest and broadest portfolio of new Ultra, BigTwinTM, SuperBlade®, and SuperStorage products optimized for today’s latest technology innovations. We will also be sharing critical insights on how Supermicro workload optimized server solutions deliver the highest performance, efficiency, and scalability in demanding customer environments from cloud to big data and hyper-converged solutions, and efficiently power mission-critical Enterprise workloads.

Initial versions of HCI solutions were designed to reduce the complexity of deploying storage and compute resources. To achieve simplicity, vendors had to make trade-offs that created performance, flexibility and consolidation limitations that affected how and where HCI could be utilized in your enterprise datacenter. NetApp HCI is the first enterprise-scale hyper converged infrastructure to be designed specifically to solve for these first-generation challenges.

Join us for this webinar to learn how NetApp HCI enables you to confidently deploy a hyper converged infrastructure in the core of you most demanding datacenters by:
•Delivering unique Quality of Service limits that allow the granular control of every application.
•Scaling compute and storage resources independently so you only buy what you use.
•Integrates into the NetApp Data Fabric for enhanced data portability, visibility and protection.

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The Intel Builders program bring together a broad ecosystem of solution providers to drive data center innovation through accelerated development and deployment of tools and documentation for cloud, storage, and network solutions. Leveraging Intel architecture, the ecosystem works to optimize solutions targeted at customer requirements. Members develop reference architecture, solutions briefs, and deployment guides to help accelerate deployment of these solutions.